IT leaders foresees the security landscape for 2018

As we head in 2018, ETCISO.IN brings you the security leader’s viewpoint on how according to them the security landscape is going to unfold in coming years.Salvi Mittal | ETCISO | January 01, 2018, 08:24 IST

The security threats in 2017 have set appalling new records from WannaCry to Petya, the Equifax to Uber breach, and more bigger and sophisticated attacks than we can deem about, are yet to come in 2018.

As we head in 2018, ETCISO.IN brings you the security leader’s viewpoint on how according to them the security landscape is going to unfold in coming years.

“The next wave is going to hit essentially the applications used for production, system to which the actual manufacturing machines are connected to, because this directly hits the business. Moreover, 2018 and next few years will be full of ransomware and smart targeted attack. Apart from having those traditional and preventive controls, it is important for organizations and CISOs to understand that someday they will be breached. Early detection and quick response will play the critical role.”

"In 2017, the ransomware attacks have given new parameters to the security landscape where the impact is huge. And we are left with very less time to react. The situation is more complicated with mobility and Internet of things where there are different devices generating humongous amount of data. MDM was one solution for mobility, securing the devices, wiping all the data and restricting data copy, but now we are looking at Unified Endpoint Management (UEM). It provides one framework which will handle all the devices in the infrastructure. It’s not just the mobile management, rather more of device management clubbed together on single framework.”

"There will be lot of dependency on the new age tech along with proactive measures in 2018. The existing traditional system cannot combat the upcoming security threats. Probably the coming year will be dominated by the technologies like AI, Internet of Thing, Voiced based, robotics automation and blockchain. The only challenge here is how these technologies are going to shape-up and identify the outcome.”

Amit Ghodekar, VP Cyber Security, Motilal Oswal Financial Services

"As CISOs, we need to be enablers for the businesses, and collaborate the processes with the latest technologies with an eye on security and leakages."

MeitY has directed ministries and government departments to observe “due diligence to ensure that their schemes are not misrepresented by fake/fraudulent entities for extorting money from innocent people.”